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Ben Shapiro Blames Trump For Republicans Losing Momentum in Midterms
Mediaite ^ | 8.29.2022 | Jackson Richman

Posted on 08/29/2022 8:18:04 PM PDT by libh8er

Conservative pundit and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro blamed former President Donald Trump for Republicans losing momentum ahead of the midterms.

…. In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Shapiro blasted Republicans who put the focus on Trump despite his unpopularity with independents, who are a crucial electoral demographic. Shapiro said that the problem for Republicans is not just the Supreme Court overturning the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade.

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[Little Ben] : “ This means that when Trump is attacked, Republicans immediately return to making him the centerpiece of the conversation – and this harms them electorally, as every poll is now showing.”

[Little Ben] : “.. There is a reason Democrats are eager to keep Trump at the center of the conversation: half of independents say Trump is a major factor in their vote, and they're breaking 4-1 for the Democrats. Republicans shouldn't play that game. If they do, they're cruising for a bruising.”

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To: tennmountainman

Did you just read the headline? He did not “blamed Trump.”

The author of this piece is trying to create a circular firing squad on the right. Based on reactions like yours, it is working.


41 posted on 08/29/2022 9:34:59 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: libh8er
Ben, one question: what have the republicans said they were going to do if they won? Anything? Anything at all?

Perhaps the answer to that question has something to do with the lack of excitement for them.

42 posted on 08/29/2022 9:35:05 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction." - Harry Truman)
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To: Moorings

Ben Shapiro said... In other news, Steve Turley is showing how virtuous patriots in every country are winning. The French patriots who love St. Joan are awesome. The Italian patriots who love Ancient Rome are brave. And the Swedish patriots who love the royal family are popular.


43 posted on 08/29/2022 9:38:39 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: sasquatch

😂


44 posted on 08/29/2022 10:03:04 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: libh8er

I like to watch him debate libs, but that’s it


45 posted on 08/29/2022 10:10:32 PM PDT by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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Shapiro is an asset. He’s wrong on this.


46 posted on 08/29/2022 10:24:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: libh8er

I blame Ben Shapiro.


47 posted on 08/29/2022 10:39:26 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: DesertRhino

Except that it is traveling faster then the speed of sound.


48 posted on 08/29/2022 10:51:49 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: Moorings

Ben is right. Trump’s time will come again, after the midterms. If Trump is quiet, every Republican will gain 5 points.


49 posted on 08/29/2022 10:53:46 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: yelostar

Within the GOP ranks, yes!


50 posted on 08/29/2022 10:55:17 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Republican Wildcat
He blames those focusing entirely on Trump and allowing that to take the messaging off of Joe Biden
If anyone, maybe Shapiro included, is taking messaging away from Joe it's the Fox News Neanderthals, stuck on stupid, one note johnnys, out to get Hunter

Hunter would be nothing without the real criminal, Joe.

Frog march Hunter to prison your lives won't change. We'll still have his criminal, corrupt dad out destroying America everyday.

51 posted on 08/29/2022 11:12:05 PM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: libh8er
Well, Ben is partially right. The talk needs to go back to what people care about.

Gonna use Virginia as an example. In VA, Youngkin and team really focused on the economy, crime, idiotic covid rules, and mixed in some real local issues like CRT racism and trans people raping girls in school.

Now VA also had like 90 percent of poll watcher positions filled, which stopped cheating...and dims did try to cheat and got caught. That is going to matter.

The talk needs to go back to dims crappy record, inflation, gas prices, food and housing prices, crime, fetanyl, illegal aliens, recession, and mixed in with whatever local issues the dims are screwing up.

52 posted on 08/29/2022 11:33:49 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: All

Pseudo-Conservative Neo-Con Ben Shapiro has always had TDS. He hated Trump from the beginning, and only occasionally pretended to accept him as President when it started cutting into his income. (Much like several other well known pundits columnists and radio hosts.)


53 posted on 08/30/2022 12:13:02 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: yelostar

Trump’s endorsement record is: 209 - 17. Doesn’t sound like he “ harms them electorally.”

Not in the primaries, no. How his endorsements fare in the general election remains to be seen.

54 posted on 08/30/2022 12:16:58 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: alstewartfan

It’s hard to keep quiet when the Biden Administration and its allies in the MSM are trying to put you in prison for having questions about the 2020 election


55 posted on 08/30/2022 2:07:32 AM PDT by RonnG ('')
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To: libh8er

> “Conservative pundit and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro blamed .....”

Shapiro isn’t a conservative anything.

He’s a backstabbing con artist. Every “conservative” column or podcast he produces is copied, plagiarized, and slightly modified from others to make it seem like his product.

Like Bill Maher, no need to give him a micron of time.


56 posted on 08/30/2022 2:36:41 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Moorings

Well ….Joe has spent a lot of time and money trying to buy votes in the last few months. The media as usual is gaslighting the nation into thinking his “wins” will improve the country but I think we all know , things aren’t changing based on his latest legislative “victories”. People have short memories. By Nov his momentum will be gone because things will actually be worse.


57 posted on 08/30/2022 3:19:13 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: libh8er

Shapiro is a classic RINO. He’s only good at debating idiot college kids. He’s wrong about everything else.


58 posted on 08/30/2022 3:35:54 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: libh8er

Shut up stupid and stop with the click bait articles.


59 posted on 08/30/2022 4:20:04 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Why don’t you and your State get rid of McConnell and do the Conservative
Nation a favor. Shapiro IS a Pajama Boy.


60 posted on 08/30/2022 4:41:24 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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